Fourth session of autumn quarter, Wednesday November 29th

Bruce Cumings will be speaking on “The Sources of North Korean Conduct,” with Robert Pape responding.

Précis: In 1947, George F. Kennan published his famous “X” article in the journal Foreign Affairs, outlining his containment doctrine and his long-term prognosis for the Soviet Union. I will do the same for North Korea, arguing that containing that leadership will be even easier than that of the USSR, since the North has no expansionist goals beyond the Korean peninsula.